| Hunting through the use of spears and other tools | | | | weapon or bait, at any time of the day. True |
| used to be the ancient man's primary way of | | | | Russian boars are said to exist only in Texas and |
| sourcing food. Today, hunting is still very much | | | | New Hampshire. |
| alive in the modern society, although it is being for | | | | The increasing population of feral boars is |
| various reasons. | | | | attributed to their ability to reproduce fast, the |
| One of the top hunting targets for men is the | | | | practice of free ranging husbandry methods and |
| wild boar, a known ancestor of domestic pigs | | | | the existence of more water in arid areas. These |
| although they look different. Boars are classified | | | | boars can produce four to six litters depending on |
| as feral hogs, Russian wild boar or hybrids, a | | | | their breed and the availability of food in their |
| mixture of the first two kinds. Boars are called full | | | | area. |
| bloods if they are pure wild boars and standard if | | | | A hunter's success in hunting boars using rifle will |
| they are a result of breeding domestic pigs and | | | | depend on the population of the wild boars, the |
| pure wild boars. | | | | hunter's knowledge of the behavioral patterns of |
| Feral hogs are hogs that have escaped | | | | wild hogs, and the use of the right kind of rifle. |
| domestication and became wild. The free roam | | | | Feral hogs have keen eye sights and they have a |
| farming, or the practice of branding hogs and | | | | very good sense of smell and hearing. A fully |
| releasing them into the open to roam free and | | | | mature feral hog can weigh from 200 to 700 |
| breed, is said to be responsible for the existence | | | | pounds while a wild boar or the Russian boar can |
| of feral hogs today. | | | | weigh up to 400 pounds. |
| Feral hogs can be found in nine States, with the | | | | Wild boar hunters should consider the kind of gun |
| largest population found in Texas. Texas and | | | | they are going to use, the gun caliber, the load of |
| other States consider hogs as nuisance animals so | | | | the gun which should match their hunting style, |
| hunting rules are very lenient. In fact, hunters are | | | | the terrain where they expect to encounter the |
| allowed to hunt feral hogs using any kind of | | | | hogs and the range between them and the boars. |